The global community needs to address ways to modernise the tax system, paying particular attention to how to fairly tax large multinationals, according to a report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Ras Al Khaimah has posted GDP growth double that of the United Arab Emirates, according to Peter Fort the newly appointed CEO of RAK Free Trade Zone.

Confidence in the global FDI landscape is up in 2013, compared with 2012, according to a survey by A T Kearney, a management consulting firm.

A report by the European Council on Foreign Relations highlights the absence of policy standards relating to bilateral investment treaties in the EU.

Inordinate delays issuing mining rights and processing land acquisitions have cost India billions of dollars in lost investment in steel production.

A survey of investors suggests that merger and acquisition activity between Chinese and US companies in the entertainment, advertising and digital media sectors will rise in the next year.

China's rapidly growing high-income population have helped the country's food and grocery market grow to become the largest in the world, according to consumer goods research company IGD.

Both outward and inward FDI dropped in 2012 in most regions of the world, with Europe and North America the hardest hit, according to a report by the UN Conference on Trade and Development.

The Indian government is looking into ways of further liberalising the country's FDI policies.